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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816736303321

Autore

Holmberg Diane

Titolo

Thrice-told tales : married couples tell their stories / / Diane Holmberg, Terri L. Orbuch, Joseph Veroff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J. ; ; London : , : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-63876-4

1-135-63877-2

1-282-37479-6

9786612374791

1-4106-0935-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

OrbuchTerri

VeroffJoseph <1929->

Disciplina

306.81/0973

Soggetti

Marriage - United States

Narration (Rhetoric) - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-178) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 A Narrative Approach to Relationships; Chapter 3 The Early Years of Marriage Project; Chapter 4 Newlyweds' Stories; Chapter 5 Beyond the Honeymoon: Changes in Narratives Over Time; Chapter 6 Tales of Love and Woe: The Interconnections Between Relationship Narratives and Marital Well-Being; Chapter 7 Changing Our Yesterdays: Reconstruction of Early Relationship Memories; Chapter 8 Gender as a Factor Affecting Narratives; Chapter 9 Ethnicity as a Factor Affecting Narratives

Chapter 10 What Have We Learned About Marriage?Chapter 11 What Have We Learned About Narratives?; References; Appendix A Thematic Coding Manual; Appendix B Affective Coding Manual; Appendix C Interaction Coding Manual; GLOSSARY Narrative Coding; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Researchers have studied marriage for decades, but how is the transition to married life actually experienced by the couples involved?



From an insider's perspective, Thrice Told Tales examines married couples' own stories of their relationship. A representative sample of 199 African-American and 177 White married couples were asked to tell the story of their relationship. It provides accounts of courtships, weddings, honeymoons, their adjustment in the early years, and hopes for the future. These stories were first collected a few months after their weddings, and again in the third and